Alejandro Rodríguez González
Tagline:Full Professor
Madrid, Spain
About me
My name is Alejandro Rodríguez González and currently, I’m working as a Full professor (tenure) at E.T.S de Ingenieros Informáticos in Computer Languages and Systems and Software Engineering department at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. I also belong to the Centro de Tecnología Biomédica, where I lead the Medical Data Analytics Laboratory (MEDAL).
I started my career in 2008 when I moved from my lovely Oviedo (Asturias) to Madrid with the idea of just «working one year in the university while I do the master's». The reality finally is that research really captivates me and I made research my «style of life», making me stay in Madrid until now. Several times I wondered if this was a bad decision.. why? Well, it is easy: making science nowadays is something hard, bad-paid and unstable. But.. there is no turning back!
About me: I love travel (as most people do 😃 , I love tattoos and I love partying with my real friends. I also have two female cats (Mia and Ayla) and I also really love to read (but sadly I don’t have too much time).
Academic positions
Full professor
from: 2022, until: presentOrganization:Universidad Politécnica de MadridLocation:Madrid, Spain
Associate Professor
from: 2015, until: 2022Organization:Universidad Politécnica de MadridLocation:Madrid, Spain
Assistant Professor (PhD)
from: 2015, until: 2015Organization:Universidad de OviedoLocation:Asturias, Spain
Adjunct Professor
from: 2012, until: 2015Organization:Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
Isaac Peral Postdoctoral
from: 2012, until: 2015Organization:Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (UPM-INIA)
Research Assistant
from: 2012, until: 2012Organization:Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Research Intern
from: 2011, until: 2012Organization:Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Research Assistant
from: 2008, until: 2011Organization:Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Education
PhD in Computer Science
from: 2010, until: 2012Field of study:Computer ScienceSchool:Universidad de Murcia
MSc in Decision Systems Engineering
from: 2009, until: 2010Field of study:Decision Systems EngineeringSchool:Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
MSc in Computer Science and Technology
from: 2008, until: 2009Field of study:Computer Science and Technology (Artificial Intelligence specialty)School:Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Computer Science Engineering
from: 2005, until: 2008Field of study:Computer Science Engineering (Management specialty)School:Universidad de Oviedo
Awards
Patents
NDMONITOR: Sistema software
Date: Mar 2018
Patent Number: M-004805/2018 .Status:Issued.
Description:Madrid Intellectual Property Registry
Adobe Connect Attendance Checker (AC2)
Date: Feb 2015
Patent Number: M-8335-14 .Status:Issued.
Description:Madrid Intellectual Property Registry
Sistema de soporte de diagnósticos diferenciales en medicina
Date: Feb 2008
Patent Number: O-309-2008 .Status:Issued.
Description:Asturias Intellectual Property Registry
Publications
Subgroup Discovery Analysis of Treatment Patterns in Lung Cancer Patients
ManuscriptPublisher:Elsevier BVDate:2023Authors:Daniel Gómez-BravoAarón GarcíaGuillermo ViguerasBelén RíosMariano ProvencioAlejandro Rodriguez-GonzalezA Trusted Platform Module-based, Pre-emptive and Dynamic Asset Discovery Tool
Journal ArticlePublisher:Journal of Information Security and ApplicationsDate:2022Authors:Antonio Jesus Diaz-HonrubiaAlberto Blázquez HerranzLucía Prieto SantamaríaErnestina Menasalvas RuizAlejandro Rodríguez-GonzálezGustavo Gonzalez-GranadilloRodrigo DiazEmmanouil PanaousisChristos XenakisIntegrating heterogeneous data to facilitate COVID-19 drug repurposing
Journal ArticlePublisher:Drug Discovery TodayDate:2022Authors:Lucía Prieto SantamaríaMarina Díaz UzquianoEsther Ugarte CarroNieves Ortiz-RoldánYuliana Pérez GallardoAlejandro Rodríguez-GonzálezNegation and uncertainty detection in clinical texts written in Spanish: a deep learning-based approach
Journal ArticlePublisher:PeerJ Computer ScienceDate:2022Authors:Oswaldo Solarte PabónOrlando MontenegroMaria TorrenteAlejandro Rodríguez GonzálezMariano ProvencioErnestina MenasalvasDrug repositioning with gender perspective focused on Adverse Drug Reactions
Conference PaperPublisher:2022 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)Date:2022Authors:Belen Otero CarrascoAurora Perez PerezErnestina Menasalvas RuizJuan Pedro Caraca-Valente HernandezLucia Prieto SantamariaAlejandro Rodriguez-GonzalezA Computational Drug Repositioning Method for Rare Diseases
Book ChapterPublisher:Bio-inspired Systems and Applications: from Robotics to Ambient IntelligenceDate:2022Authors:Belén Otero-CarrascoLucía Prieto SantamaríaEsther Ugarte CarroJuan Pedro Caraça-Valente HernándezAlejandro Rodríguez-GonzálezDrug repositioning with gender perspective focused on Adverse Drug Reactions
ManuscriptPublisher:Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryDate:2022Authors:Belén Otero CarrascoAurora Pérez PérezErnestina Menasalvas RuizJuan Pedro Caraça-Valente HernándezLucía Prieto SantamaríaAlejandro Rodríguez-GonzálezRepositioning Drugs for Rare Diseases Based on Biological Features and Computational Approaches
Journal ArticlePublisher:HealthcareDate:2022Authors:Belén Otero-CarrascoLucía Prieto SantamaríaEsther Ugarte CarroJuan Pedro Caraça-Valente HernándezAlejandro Rodríguez-GonzálezTowards the Representation of Network Assets in Health Care Environments Using Ontologies
Journal ArticlePublisher:Methods of Information in MedicineDate:2021Authors:Lucía Prieto SantamaríaDavid Fernández LobónAntonio Jesús Díaz-HonrubiaErnestina Menasalvas RuizSokratis NifakosAlejandro Rodríguez-GonzálezLeveraging network analysis to evaluate biomedical named entity recognition tools
Journal ArticlePublisher:Scientific ReportsDate:2021Authors:Eduardo P. García del ValleGerardo Lagunes GarcíaLucía Prieto SantamaríaMassimiliano ZaninErnestina Menasalvas RuizAlejandro Rodríguez-González
Research Projects
PAPHOS: Platform for advance prescriptive health operational system
date: 2023Description:PAPHOS aims to create a prescriptive health operational system by means of the analysis of certain types of data provided by the different entities involved in the project to support both professionals and patients.
- Role in this project: Researcher
- Participant entities: Several entities
- Funding agency: EIT Health
Trazamed: Plataforma inteligran basada en tecnologías de identificación RFID y DataMatrix para la trazabilidad de medicamentos
date: 2023Description:Platform for the traceability of medicines.
The aim of Trazamed project was the creation of an integral solution for the traceability of medicines through the use of innovative technologies such as RFID. The project aimed to also provide a complete planning system about the routes that delivery person should do in order to deliver the medicines in the different pharmacies.- Role in this project: Research assistant
- Participant entities: creativ IT, Universidad de Deusto, Welness Telecom, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Bilbomatica
- Funding agency: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (now Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad)
BigMedilytics: Big Medical Data Analytics
date: 2023Description:Innovation Action.
- Role in this project: Principal Investigator
- Participant entities: Phillips, INCLIVA, ITI, Univ. Rotterdam, Achmea, GIE AXA, Optimedis, ATOS Spain, TNO, Univ. Eindhoven, ContextFlow, Huawei, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Stockolms Lans Landsting, HPI, NCSR, ATC, Univ. Bonn, UPM, SERMAS, Univ. Med. Viena, IBM Israel, Institut Curie, Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy, Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Kunstliche Intelligenz, Charite – Universtaetmedizin Berlin, AOK Nordost, Universitaetsklinikum Essen, University of Southampton, My Health, Astrazeneka UK, Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis, ETZ, Univ. Rotterdam
- Funding agency: H2020
SIGNAL: Segmentación Inteligente basada en Tecnologías de Técnicas de Inteligencia Artificial
date: 2023Description:Artificial Intelligence techniques applied to the segmentation of advertisements.
The aim of this project was the development of a platform based on clustering to allow the segmentation of advertisements based on users behavior and relationships with other users.- Role in this project: Research assistant
- Participant entities: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
- Funding agency: BeRuby
Cloud-HICM: Servicios de gestión del capital humano e intelectual en la nube
date: 2023Description:Human knowledge management in the cloud.
The overall objective of the project was to create the technological infrastructure for the provision of management and development of human and intellectual capital management (HICM) in the cloud. In collaboration with Meta4 Spain, the challenge is that beyond the adaptation of services in an environment similar to SaaS, it must confront a R&D project to enable the creation of services based on SaaS, PaaS and IaaS solving the technical problems posed by this change of strategy in relation to Meta4 products.- Role in this project: Research assistant
- Participant entities: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
- Funding agency: Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio (now Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Turismo)
GODO2: Generación Inteligente de Objetivos para el Descubrimiento de Servicios Web Semánticos
date: 2023Description:Application of Semantic Web Services to intelligent objective generation.
See previous project (GODO).
- Role in this project: Research assistant
- Participant entities: ATOS, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Universidad de Murcia
- Funding agency: Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio (now Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Turismo)
BDVe: Big Data Value eCosystem
date: 2023Description:Coordination and support action.
- Role in this project: Researcher
- Participant entities: Several entities
- Funding agency: H2020
iSPEC: iGreen Smart Prediction of Energy Consumtpion
date: 2023Description:Energy consumption prediction by means of artificial intelligence techniques.
The aim of this project was the development of a platform using artificial intelligence techniques (concretely: neural networks) to allow the prediction of energy consumption in a set of buildings equiped with a set of sensors which provides raw data about different parameters such as temperature, humidity, etc.- Role in this project: Research assistant
- Participant entities: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
- Funding agency: Euroconsult
Quality and Trust from Provenance in e-Science
date: 2023Description:Quality and Trust from Provenance in e-Science.
The aim of this project was the design and development of provenance-related utilities and frameworks based on semantic technologies to achieve a fully-reusable method of publishing science.- Role in this project: Research assistant
- Participant entities: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid – CBGP
- Funding agency: Euroconsult
DISNET
date: 2023Description:Creación y análisis de redes de enfermedades (DISease NETworks) para el reposicionamiento de fármacos a partir de fuentes heterogéneas aplicado a enfermedades raras.
Plan Nacional. Retos Orientados a la sociedad- Role in this project: Principal Investigator
- Participant entities: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Funding agency: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
Teaching History
Data Structures (Second Course)
From: 2023, Until: present
Organization:Universidad Internacional de La RiojaField:BSc on Computer Science
Databases
From: 2020, Until: present
Organization:Universidad Politécnica de MadridField:BSc on Computer Science and Mathematics
Databases
From: 2020, Until: present
Organization:Universidad Politécnica de MadridField:Double Degree in Computer Science and Business Administration
Complex Data in Health
From: 2020, Until: present
Organization:Universidad Politécnica de MadridField:EIT Health Master on Health and Medical Data Analytics
Data Mining
From: 2017, Until: 2018
Organization:Universidad Politécnica de MadridField:Máster en Consultoría en Gestión de Empresas
Data Analytics
From: 2016, Until: present
Organization:Universidad Politécnica de MadridField:BSc on Computer Science and BSc on Computer Science and Mathematics
Medical Data Intelligent Analysis
From: 2016, Until: present
Organization:Universidad Politécnica de MadridField:Master in Biomedical Engineering
Data Analysis
From: 2016, Until: present
Organization:Universidad Politécnica de MadridField:EIT Digital in Data Science
Data Science Seminars
From: 2016, Until: present
Organization:Universidad Politécnica de MadridField:EIT Digital in Data Science
Data Processes (previously Cognitive Systems)
From: 2016, Until: present
Organization:Universidad Politécnica de MadridField:Several EIT MSc programmes & Computer Science Engineering Master
Conference Contributions
HEALTHINF 18: 11th International Conference on Health Informatics
From: 2023
Committee member
2nd International Conference on ICTs in Agronomy and Environment
From: 2019
Committee member
KGSWC 18: 1st Iberoamerican Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web Conference
From: 2018
Committee member
HIPIS 18: Healthcare Interoperability and Pervasive Intelligent System (workshop part of The 8th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH 2018))
From: 2018
Committee member
DSEDU 18: 1st International Workshop on Data Science EDUcation: Challenges, Opportunities and Trends (DSEDU 2018) (part of ICTERI 2018)
From: 2018
Committee member
PACBB 18: 12th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
From: 2018
Committee member
CITI 18: 4th International Conference on Technologies and Innovation
From: 2018
Committee member
Journal Editorial
International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems
From: 2023
Journal editorial board
International Journal On Advances in Life Sciences
From: 2023
Journal editorial board
International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP)
From: 2023
Journal editorial board
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Expert systems (IJAE)
From: 2023
Journal editorial board
International Journal of Decision Support System Technology (IJDSST)
From: 2023
Journal editorial board
Compusoft. An international Journal of Advanced Computer Technology
From: 2023
Journal editorial board
Revista Ibérica de Sistemas y Tecnologías de la Información (RISTI)
From: 2023
Journal editorial board
Electronic Business and Marketing. Studies in Computational Intelligence (Springer)
From: 2023
Advisory Editorial Board
Professional Advancements and Management Trends in the IT Sector. (IGI-Global)
From: 2023
Advisory Editorial Board
Journal Reviews
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
From: 2023
Reviewer
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
From: 2023
Reviewer
Courses Taken
Introduction to Python
from: Feb 2017, until: Feb 2017
Organization: ICE-UPM .
Description:During February 2017 I attended to a course about Python programming language. It was organized by ICE-UPM.
Writing successful ERC StG & CoG Grant proposals
from: Oct 2016, until: Oct 2016
Organization: Fundación para el conocimiento madri+d and Yellow research .
Description:During October 2016 I did a course about writing proposals for European Research Council (ERC) grants (Starting & Consolidator). It was organized by Fundación para el conocimiento madri+d and Yellow research.
Predictive Modeling Fundamentals I
from: Sep 2016, until: Sep 2016
Organization: Big Data University .
Description:During September 2016 I did a course about fundamentals of predictive modeling using SPSS modeler tool. It was organized by Big Data University.
Elaboration of scientific presentations with Prezi
from: Feb 2016, until: Feb 2016
Organization: ICE-UPM .
Description:During February 2016 I attended to a course about elaboration of scientific presentations with Prezi. It was organized by ICE-UPM.
Open Scientific Information and Social Networks
from: Feb 2016, until: Feb 2016
Organization: ICE-UPM .
Description:During February 2016 I attended to a course about scientific publications which included the analysis of publication repositories, indexes such as h-index, Google Scholar and the use of social networks to disseminate scientific results. It was organized by ICE-UPM.
Interfacing with the Arduino
from: Dec 2015, until: Dec 2015
Organization: University of California, Irvine .
Description:During December 2015 I did an online course (MOOC) entitled «Interfacing with the Arduino» organized by University of California, Irvine. It was part of an specialization in IoT.
Introduction to Big Data
from: Dec 2015, until: Dec 2015
Organization: University of California, San Diego .
Description:During December 2015 I did an online course (MOOC) entitled «Introduction to Big Data» organized by University of California, San Diego. It was part of an specialization in Big Data.
Introduction to Internet of Things and Embedded Systems
from: Nov 2015, until: Nov 2015
Organization: University of California, Irvine .
Description:During November 2015 I did an online course (MOOC) entitled «Introduction to Internet of Things and Embedded Systems» organized by University of California, Irvine. It was part of an specialization in IoT.
Talks
DISNET: Drug repositioning and disease understanding through complex networks creation and analysis
Date: Sep 2018
Event name: Visiting Speaker .Location: Network Science Institute (Northeastern University). Boston, Massachussets, USA .
Mesa Redonda sobre Big Data: una oportunidad inigualable para España
Date: Jun 2018
Event name: Round Table, Invited Participant .Location: Instituto de Ingeniería de España, Madrid, Spain .
Big Data en Salud: características y oportunidades
Date: Apr 2018
Event name: Invited Speaker .Location: Cumbre de Industria y Tecnología. Gijón, Asturias, Spain .
Big Data in health: applications, challenges and opportunities
Date: Oct 2017
Event name: 3rd International Conference on Technologies and Innovation CITI 2017 .Location: Guayaquil, Ecuador .
Description:Invited Talk
Big Data Value ecosystem: Skills
Date: Oct 2017
Event name: International Annual Conference of the European Association of Institutes for Vocational Training (EVBB) .Location: La Valeta, Malta .
Description:Keynote Speaker
Big Data in health: applications, challenges and opportunities
Date: May 2017
Event name: EUROFORUM San Lorenzo del Escorial .Location: Madrid, Spain .
Description:Invited Talk
Big Data en Salud. El valor de los datos
Date: Feb 2017
Event name: Centro Nacional de Epidemiología. Instituto de Salud Carlos III .Location: Madrid, Spain .
Human disease networks: large-scale creation and analysis
Date: Feb 2017
Event name: Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC) .Location: Córdoba, Spain .
Big Data in Healthcare: motivation, current state and specific use cases
Date: Dec 2016
Event name: Guide Share Europe anual meeting (spanish section) .Location: IBM, Madrid, Spain .
Applications of Semantic Technologies in Real World. Particularization in applications based on Linked Data
Date: Oct 2011
Event name: Coloquio de Investigación Multidisciplinar 2011 (CIM 2011) .Location: Orizaba, Veracruz, México .